Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-11
POWDERED BY POW DERBY
THE MASTER WORKMAN PUlVERizES
ANARCHIST RESOLUTIONS,

And Settles Quinn's Sympathetic Move by
the b. 6 q. Telegraph Deal That VIII
BE Unanimously Adopted-wsiting for
the Tardy Committees.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct 1.-THE Knights
OF Labor delegates spent the forenoon Mon
day aboutthe hotel lobbies, discussing various
matters that are likely to come up before the
general assembly this week. The several
committees were in session during the day,
getting their work in shape for the conven-
ton. The general executive board also held
a secret session. which lasted all the forenoon.
The general opinion among the delegates is
that no serious fight will come up now before
the cow ention closes its work Another
sharp discussion is likely to come up over the
law governing the national trade districts
1t is sand that the trade district delegates will
ask that the law be changed materially, so as
to give them more power. This request will
be opposed, and very strongly, too, by the
delegates representing the mixed districts, as
the demands of the former would in a meas
ure tend to destroy the power of the latter.
The fight that it was supposed would be made
ficers is said to have "died a-bornin'"
The liveliest session of the assembly was
held Monday afternoon James f. Quinn,
of District Assembly 40. New York, the
famous kicker" and Home club man, pre-
sented the following resolutions under sus-
pension of the rules:
Considering that the development of the human
mind in the Nineteenth century has reached a
point expressed almost universally against cap
Ial punishment or taking of human life by judi
cial process & relic of barbarisn therefore,
be it
Resolved, That this convention exI ress sorrow
that the men in Chicago were doomed to death,
and that it use every endeavor to secure the conf
mutatauon of the sentence ct death passed upon
them.
The resolution was no sooner read than
every delegate in the hall was on his feet.
General Master Workman Powderly decided
the resolution cut of order Joseph Evans.
of Pittsburg, appealed from the decision.
The appeal was lost by vote of ISL to 81.
Before the appeal was taken Mr.. Powderly
called General Worthy Foreman Grittiths of
Chicago, to the chair, ana in a short but We
hement speech called upon the convention
to defeat the resolution He said no
true knight could be an Anarchist
He appealed to the delegates in iupassioned
words not to pervert the purposes of the or
der by the passage of any such resolutions
IL was the hottest speech Powderly was ever
known to make
Quinn, who offered the resolution, voted
aye on the appeal in order to move reconsid-
| Grafton 7. H. Lowry, of Pennsy lvania, made
burning speech, and at $50 the hall was a
perfect pandemonium, the shouts being heard
for some distance from the hall
The session closed at O'Clock and all the
delegates are close mouthed, while the press
committee state that aside from the intro
daction and distribution of papers aud
speeches upon various subjects of interest
nothing else was done at the session
The committee appointed to formulate the
ideas of the general assembly upon the late
telegraph deal will present the following
resolution which will doubtless be unani-
mously adopted:
WHEREAS: The Knights Of Labor in general as
sembly convened recognize that in the ABSORB
ton of the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph company
a serious blow has been struck against the indus
trial commercial and political welfare of all the
| people of the country, for in the own
| ership of the ihtegenGe-conveying me
! dunn by an individual news of every
character can be withheld, or subjected to
| such nanipula ton as would render II worse than
mseiess making it possible to put artificial prices
upon commodities and bring about panics with
| their results Of Suffering and misery upon all
| classes of people; and
WHEREAS, In the consummatinn of Gould's mo-
nopolistic purpose iii relation Ia the Baltimore &
| Ohio Telegraph company, il Is evident that the
position taken by the X OF l. in its opposition to
| monopoly Is just and necessary one and that
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